[The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cross-Cut CHAPTER VIII 24/30
Besides, the night of the dance was approaching, and there were other calls for volunteers, for men to set up the old-time bar in the lodge rooms of the Elks Club; for others to dig out ancient roulette wheels and oil them in preparation for a busy play at a ten-cent limit instead of the sky-high boundaries of a day gone by; for some one to go to Denver and raid the costume shops, to say nothing of buying the innumerable paddles which must accompany any old-time game of keno. But Sam stayed on--and Fairchild with him--and the loiterers, who would refuse to work at anything else for less than six dollars a day, freely giving their services at the pumps and the engines in return for a share of Sam's good will and their names in the papers. A day more and a day after that.
Through town a new interest spread. The water was now only a few feet high in the shaft; it meant that the whole great opening, together with the drift tunnel, soon would be dewatered to an extent sufficient to permit of exploration.
Again the motor cars ground up the narrow roadway.
Outside the tunnel the crowds gathered.
Fairchild saw Anita Richmond and gritted his teeth at the fact that young Rodaine accompanied her.
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